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Main Entry:
pontifical [pon-tif-i-kuhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pertaining to pope
Synonyms: arrogant, dogmatic, overbearing, papal, pompous, pretentious, puffy
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Main Entry: fustian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pompous
Synonyms: arrogant, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flaunting, high and mighty, highfalutin, lofty, ostentatious, pontifical, portentous, pretentious, puffed up, ranting, self-centered, self-important, vain, vainglorious
Main Entry: judicial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: legal
Synonyms: administrative, authoritative, constitutional, discriminating, distinguished, equitable, forensic, impartial, judgelike, judiciary, juridical, jurisdictional, juristic, lawful, legalistic, magisterial, official, pontifical, principled, regular, statutory
Notes: judicial means 'pertaining to judges or the courts' and judicious means 'prudent, carefully considered'; judicial refers to judgment as it is exercised by the court, judicious to judgment as exercised by an individual
Main Entry: pompous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant, egotistic
Synonyms: affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy
Antonyms: dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming
Main Entry: religious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning belief in divinity
Synonyms: believing, born-again, canonical, churchgoing, churchly, clerical, deistic, devotional, devout, divine, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pietistic, pious, pontifical, prayerful, priestly, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theistic, theological
Antonyms: agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly
Main Entry: preachy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sermonizing
Synonyms: moralizing, pontifical, sententious
Main Entry: papal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pertaining to the pope
Synonyms: apostolic, papistic, pontifical
Main Entry: puffed-up
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pompous
Synonyms: affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, hoity-toity, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy
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